Freelance Senior Project Manager

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Company Description

The Klick Group—comprising Klick Health (including Klick Katalyst and btwelve), Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures—is an ecosystem dedicated to realizing the full potential of our people and clients in life sciences. Founded in 1997, we have offices in New York, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. Consistently named a Best Managed Company, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and Great Place to Work, Klick is committed to fostering a high-performance, people-first culture with creativity, collaboration, innovation, and impact across everything we do.

About our Project Management Craft

  • Our Project Management Craft brings structure and momentum to complex work.
  • The team plans, coordinates, and tracks delivery across disciplines.
  • They ensure projects stay on time, on scope, and on budget.
  • Their work enables collaboration and efficiency.

Job Description

The Freelance Senior Project Manager will support complex healthcare marketing projects for clients and internal teams. This role helps manage scope, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, and stakeholder communication across multiple workstreams. The role partners closely with Client Services, subject matter experts, creative, strategy, and client stakeholders to deliver strong project outcomes.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead multiple complex client projects in parallel, managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and communication deliverables.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams across Client Services, Creative, Strategy, Medical, and client stakeholders to meet project objectives.
  • Apply risk mitigation plans, change management approaches, and project tracking tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, Microsoft Project, TFS, or similar platforms.
  • Manage project financials, reconciliations, work orders, contingency use, and portfolio metrics tied to revenue and profitability.
  • Support other team members on project management practices, onboarding, delivery standards, and process improvements.

Qualifications

Required:

  • 5+ years of project management experience or 3+ years of agency project management experience managing client-facing projects.
  • Experience managing multiple complex projects in parallel, including scope, budget, schedule, risk, quality, and stakeholder communication.
  • Project financial management experience, including revenue tracking, reconciliations, work orders, contingency, profit, or loss impacts.
  • Proficiency with project management tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, Microsoft Project, TFS, or similar platforms in active project delivery.
  • Experience working with waterfall and Agile or Scrum delivery methods across digital, CRM, software, interactive, or new media projects.
  • Fluency in English and Portuguese for client and cross-functional stakeholder communication.

Desired:

  • Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
  • Experience in healthcare and life sciences in agency environments.
  • Advanced presentation, negotiation, and client relationship skills demonstrated through senior stakeholder or client-facing work.
  • Experience supporting staffing plans, resource conflict resolution, team onboarding, or mentoring Project Managers and Coordinators.
  • Project management certifications such as PMP, Scrum, Agile, or similar credentials are helpful but not required.

 

Additional Information

The rate/salary for this position will be determined based on several factors such as a candidate's work location, their unique skill set, education, and prior work experience.

Thanks for reading and Klick looks forward to hearing from interested candidates.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at careers@klick.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.

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Equal Opportunity

Klick embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We're committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, or family status. If you require disability-related accommodation during the application or interview process, simply let us know and we'll work with you to ensure you have a positive experience.